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Tefillin

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Named bound leather boxes of Jewish prayer, strapped to head and arm. Not a Mezuzah, not the Tablets of the Law, and not a generic charm.

Also known as Phylacteries

  • Tefillin is historically related to Parchment.

    JE PHYLACTERIES seats tefillin as leathern boxes holding Biblical passages on parchment, worn on head and arm at prayer — phylactery furniture, not mezuzah door-post speech.

    from Isidore Singer et al. · The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901–1906

    historically related to · sourced · documented

  • Pharisees is used in Tefillin.

    In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, the phylacteries worn by the Pharisees and others of the Jewish nation are described among their rites — tefillin are those Pharisee phylacteries.

    from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

    used in · sourced · documented

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